Using Visual Studio 2017 to Cross-Compile PowerPC AmigaOS4 Code

Visual Studio 2017 and the cyg-adtools package can offer an Amiga OS4 C/C++ developer a really powerful, modern, robust, heavily developed, and as-up-to-date-as-you’d like, cross-compiling Integrated Development Environment on Windows 10. There are countless plugins constantly being developed for VS, and since VS Community 2017 (and probably beyond) are now given away by Microsoft at zero cost, VS has been exploding in popularity. To accomplish this setup for all your future projects, you need to gain some knowledge on the workings of VS and how it interacts with Cygwin and the Cygwin-hosted adtools toolchain. Someone from Canada just posted a truly complete and entirely self-contained guide on Amigans.net. Start coding…